Example sentences of "things have gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has his own story of being ignored when requesting information and of being left uncertain what to do when things have gone wrong , such as connections lost . |
| 2 | There needs to be personal contact when things have gone wrong , the head and staff need to be generous in their apologies when they make mistakes . |
| 3 | He believes that older people have had a raw deal , and through his writing he hopes to show where things have gone wrong and how more positive attitudes could be developed . |
| 4 | If I 'm not , things have gone wrong . |
| 5 | It has never been the Queen 's style to rant and rave when things have gone wrong — and in truth she has never needed to . |
| 6 | At the same time the regulators , too , need to know where things have gone wrong and they can not afford to wait the year or eighteen months necessary to conduct an investigation in depth before taking corrective action . |
| 7 | But two things have gone wrong with the deal . |
| 8 | It is very important not to simply write it off completely as ‘ a bad day ’ just because things have gone wrong . |
| 9 | What kind of things have gone wrong in the past . |
| 10 | Legal and quasi-legal moves are made when things have gone wrong , where expectations have not been fulfilled on both sides , and often where students have not played the compliant role expected of them . |
| 11 | Like the Trade Descriptions Act , it is designed not to give individual consumers a remedy when things have gone wrong , but rather to prevent things from going wrong . |
| 12 | However , things have gone wrong , and if ever Falls now . |
| 13 | According to a recent report from the market research company Mintel , customer perceptions of quality in products and service have more to do with their expectation that companies should get it right first time than with the belief that they should provide a safety net to protect consumers once things have gone wrong . |